"Three countries, two lakes, one destination," says Greek environmentalist Mirsini Malakou, who has worked toward this vision in the Balkans for 30 years. Malakou is head of the Society for the ...

Cross-border cooperation is a rare phenomenon in the Balkans. NGOs in Greece, Albania and North Macedonia are swimming against the tide and working together to protect a lake that has shores in all ...

One of Europe’s oldest lakes - Lake Prespa in the Balkans - is on the verge of collapse. Each year, the lake’s waters shrink further due to evaporation, lack of rain and overuse of water for ...

Buzëliqen (AFP) – Plants and reeds have sprouted up as the waters of Little Prespa Lake on the Albanian-Greek border recede, their beauty overshadowing a painful truth: the lake is slowly dying. The ...

For millennia, Lake Prespa was pristine. But under pressure from climate change, unchecked pumping and pollution, the prehistoric body of water in southeast Europe is shrinking at an alarming rate.

LAKE PRESPA, N. Macedonia (Reuters) - Fisherman Vancho Vasilevski's boat frequently runs aground when he sails on Lake Prespa, one of Europe's oldest lakes and home to more than 2,000 species of fish, ...

Greece, Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) signed a formal agreement for protection of the unique Prespes Lakes last week, on the anniversary of World Wetlands Day and ...

Each year, the lake’s waters shrink further due to evaporation, lack of rain and overuse of water for irrigation. With a surface area of around 260 square kilometres, more than twice the size of Paris ...

The drop in precipitation has led to the steady erosion of Lake Prespa's shores, which in some places measures up to three kilometres -- according to park rangers who keep a close eye on the lake AFP ...

The drop in precipitation has led to the steady erosion of Lake Prespa's shores, which in some places measures up to three kilometres -- according to park rangers who ...